BeetstreamNext

Fully-featured music server for Beets.io music libraries implementing the OpenSubsonic API

BeetstreamNext exposes your Beets music library over the OpenSubsonic API, letting you stream your music to any Subsonic/OpenSubsonic/Navidrome client. It supports essentially the whole specification (only video-streaming is left out), and adds a bunch of its own extras :)

Features

• Multi-user accounts: per-user bookmarks, ratings, favorites, play queues... (details)
• Streaming: direct play, on-the-fly transcoding, adaptive-bitrate HLS, server-side ReplayGain, self-healing streams (details)
• Jukebox mode: play on the server's own hardware, a Sonos speaker, or a Chromecast device (details)
• Library augmentation: artist bios, similar artists/songs, ratings, lyrics, sonic similarity (details)
• Internet radio & podcasts, managed independently of your Beets library (details)
• Playlists: BeetstreamNext's own per-user playlists, and read/write access to Beets' playlist/smartplaylist files (details)
• Public shares: landing pages and download links, no client or account required (details)
• Security: IP allow/deny lists, adaptive rate-limiting (details)
• Advanced Beets queries: prefix a client search with beets:/b: to run a full Beets query instead of a simple search

Rough roadmap

• Detailed Beets import history and per-item reimport action (à la Betanin)
• More notification types (health scan results, podcast download failures, jukebox errors, admin login lockouts, etc) and per-album import results in notifications
• External scrobbling (Last.fm, Libre.fm, ListenBrainz)
• Chromaprint-based sonic similarity (alternative to AudioMuse-AI)
• Jukebox: Web UI control panel, and more backends (Snapcast, DLNA/UPnP, AirPlay)
• Web UI player and library browser (in-browser playback, sortable track table)
• Playlist export to Spotify, Deezer, Tidal, etc
• Augmented public shares for read-only setups (serve versions with clean tags and embedded art)
• Share options: Selectable format/bitrate for shares downloads
• Share options: Expiry or download-count limits, password protection
• Proper OIDC support (Authelia, Authentik, etc)
• Prometheus metrics
• Backup/restore settings and BeetstreamNext data

Documentation

Read the full docs for installation, configuration reference, all features in detail, API coverage, reverse-proxy/CORS setup, and tested clients.

Quick start

git clone https://github.com/FlorentLM/BeetstreamNext.git
cd BeetstreamNext
pip install .

Enable it in Beets' config.yaml:

plugins: beetstreamnext

Then run it:

beet beetstreamnext

BeetstreamNext can also run standalone, see Installation.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.